As a child he was a precocious showman, narcissistic in the extreme, yet he was loved by his fans. He was loved also by his live in-boy friend, Scott Thorsen, who helped him don and doff his outrageous glittery and feathered costumes when on stage and supported his needs in other ways at home ( see his book here)
In 1977, the 18-year-old Thorson became "lover, friend and confidant" of the 57-year-old Liberace, a relationship that would continue until 1982. Here, with Thorleifson (coauthor of John Wayne) he relates the sorry, seamy tale of his "callous" eviction from the performer's Las Vegas penthouse in favor of a teenager and the public brouhaha that followed when he filed a palimony suit. The book is uncomfortably candid with revelations about "Lee"who was driven to experience sexual variety with younger males, even as he continued to publicly deny his homosexuality.Liberace died of AIDS but tried very hard to conceal the fact he was homosexual - while flaunting it in every way on stage.
